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Lyrics for Pickled Jew by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Pickled Jew | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 135 | | | | Lyrics: | The Pickled Jew
Two middle-aged brothers in New York once dwelt,
In all kinds of
merchandise freely they dealt.
And those two brothers, 'twixt me and you
Those two
brothers were rich, were as rich as a Jew
cho: Derry down, down, down derry
down.
Now Moses and Isaac, I'll call them by name
For making sharp bargains they
were of just fame.
If people need money, it always was lent
And they never would charge
over ninety percent.
One day, the lad Moses, his days they were o'er
For the Lord
called on Moses to settle the score.
No mortal on earth can reserve his last call
For now
Moses was taking his last leave of all.
So then said old Isaac with a voice like an
elk
"All his money and riches I'll have for myself
But here is his will, and I'll read it
right through
And find out what Moses would have me to do."
He picked up the will
and as sure as you live,
All my money and riches to my brother I'll give.
For the money
and riches, I'd have him to toil
He must bury my body on good English soil.
He went
to the captains, but could not prevail
For none with the body would agree to set sail.
So,
not to be beaten, he went right to work
And embarged him on board as a barrel of salt
pork.
One day, as Isaac was walking the wharf
He met with the captain, a surly-faced
dwarf.
Said he to the captain, looking steadfast and down
"I hope you delivered my pork
safe and sound"
"Oh no," said the captain, "that I cannot say,
For in sight of land
we were near cast away.
Drawing near to old England we had a revolt
Then provisions got
short and we had to break bolt."
"Break bolt," said old Isaac, "You're worse than the
Turk
You didn't disturb my barrel of salt pork?"
"Oh yes," saidd the captain, speaking up
very gruff
"We ate up your pork, It was damnably tough."
"Oh God!" said old Isaac,
"You're worse than a sinner.
You would eat up my poor brother Moses for dinner!"
"Oh God!"
said the captain, "Has me and my crew
Been living three weeks on a barrel of tough
Jew?"
"But now," said the captain," to finish the joke
I will pay you for
Moses as though he was pork."
"Oh no," said old Isaac, "we will cheat one another
For the
Lord won't allow us to sell our own brother."
But Isaac 'served the captain putting back his
own gold.
Then he said to the captain, "Dear captain, please hold.
Now seeing you can't
pay for that brother of mine
You might at least pay for the barrel and brine."
from
Folk Songs out of Wisconson (Peters)
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